From the Daily Bruin: A UCLA-affiliated research institute plans to revolutionize the liver transplant process by using up to a $19.8 million grant to create functional organs from cells. The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation will work with researchers from UCLA, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University and other institutions on a project called “Prometheus,” which received the grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a federal research agency.
Prometheus – led by Dr. Xiling Shen, the Institute’s acting director – aims to solve a critical shortage of donor organs, according to an Oct. 2 press release. Among adults added to the U.S. liver transplant waiting list in 2023, 61.9% received a liver within one year, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients’. “The end goal is to be able to bioprint a functional liver and what I call the universal functional liver, which will be accepted or not rejected by anyone,” said Dr. Vadim Jucaud, an assistant professor at the Terasaki Institute...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2026/10/18/ucla-affiliated-institute-seeks-to-develop-synthetic-livers-with-19-8m-grant.
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